Oil empire : visions of prosperity in Austrian Galicia / Alison Fleig Frank
- Bib ID:
- 3661944
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Frank, Alison Fleig
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005
- xiii, 343 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0674018877
- Series:
- Harvard historical studies ; 149.
- Summary:
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"In this work, Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry. She portrays this often overlooked oil boom's transformation of the environment, and its reorientation of religious and social divisions that had defined a previously agrarian population, as surprising alliances among traditional foes sprang up among workers and entrepreneurs at the workplace and in the pubs and brothels of new oil towns." "Frank sets this complex story in a context of international finance, technological exchange, and Habsburg history as a sobering counterpoint to traditional modernization narratives."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Map : the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1914
- 1. The land where salt and oil flowed : Austrian Galicia
- 2. Galician California : battles for land and mineral rights
- 3. Petroleum fever : foreign entrepreneurs and a new national industry
- 4. The boys don't sleep at home : workers' dreams of wealth and independence
- 5. Oil city : the epidemic of overproduction
- 6. Blood of earth : the crisis of war
- 7. A hotly disputed territory : the struggle for eastern Galicia
- App. Data on oil production.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-318) and index.
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